Everything in one post

I wish there are 48 hours in a day. I have been so busy since September – but not really productive. When there is time, time spent on my bed – zzZZZ. Anyway, yesterday Sunny asked me when I am going to update my blog. Yeah, right now (instead of zzZZZ). I am going to put everything in one post - stuffs cumulated from about half a year ago.

Part 1 - A list of projects in progress:

For Lorena’s new born baby girl. Well, I totally made up the little sock. I have no clue whether it will fit a two-month-old baby. Can anyone tell me? It’s 5 inches long. The second sock is still in my head (incase I need modifications).


I am very proud of the evenness of my knitting and my finishing skills.

My poor peacock feather shawl has been hidden at a corner of my yarn closet for, embarrassedly, almost half a year. It saw daylight again today for a photoshoot. I need a better, shaper needle for this project. It’s really hard to do sl2tog, k1, psso knitting in lace weight yarn with a blunt, slippery Inox circular needle.

During the weekend, I learned twined knitting because I surprisingly obtained some Z piled alpaca yarn (it was from Eugeni.x last Christmas, at the time I got it I didn’t noticed it was S spun & Z piled, I figured it out when doing the winding a month ago).

And lace knitting again! A pattern from Yarn Over, I am knitting it with DMC size 30 cotton and a 2.0 mm needle. There is a mistake in the chart, luckily I figured it out right after I finished the mistake round, and it was an easy fix. Easy pattern, no maker is required except one for indicating the beginning of a round!

FO: Mini Argyle Beret
Pattern: My own creation
Yarn: Rown 4ply Soft for background; Lorna’s Lace Sheppard Sock Yarn for argyles
Needle: 3.0mm

Well, I made this because I have to digest my sock yarns.

Part 2 – The first credit card syndrome:

Back in September, I got my first credit card, thus started my massive online shopping (the fact that CAD $$ > US $$ resulted even more online shopping lol). I got yarn and sock blockers from The Loopy Ewe. Well the wood socks blockers are fabulous, but the plastic ones are really bad – too thin, not enough stiffness, not worth the price.

And books from Amazon. I feel really disappointed about “The best of Interweave Knits”. They are not the best!!! A few of them are free patterns already, what’s the point of republishing them? The felted floral bag has appeared in several places, no more duplication, please! Also, do you notice the downfall of printing quality in recent craft magazines? The Interweave Crochet and Spin Off are “stapler bounded” (I don’t know the technical term, but you know what I mean, right?). Some recent pattern books are worse than a magazine. Personally, I prefer a higher price with a book better in both content and printing quality. None of recent knitting books can compete with Alice Starmore’s Aran Knitting, or even Ann Feitelson’s The Art of Fair Isle Knitting.


The Gossamer Webs is an exception. Indeed I love some of IK's traditional/folk knitting series. Sadly, this book was published in 1998, almost one decade ago.